Equality of educational opportunity for all students seems to be a far less widely achieved goal than is the fact of desegregation--a fact that in itself is not uniformly established. (MB)

Describes a nontraditional approach to reporting student progress via narrative report cards. The teacher-developed form used by three Tuscaloosa, Alabama, elementary schools is practically blank, allowing teachers to put student information into list or paragraph formats at nine-week intervals. Success depends on keeping communication and…

Focuses on the concepts of myth, metaphor, and moxie as they relate to reframing within career counseling. Claims that many clients have expectations (myths) that require reformulation and that metaphors can play an important part in such changes. Discusses implications for the training and practice of counselors. (RJM)

Teams can boost creativity, morale, and communication, but they can also unleash disharmony, create tension, and waste time. To maximize teaming benefits, administrators must share authority, cultivate teacher leadership, train all team members, use situational leadership, model effective team leader behaviors, provide incentives, support each…

Summarizes results of a survey of coordinators of information services on adoption as to the efficacy of current recruiting methods to examine possible ways to reverse the increasing difficulty of finding adoption placements for older children. Recommends ensuring postadoption support, streamlining responses to families requesting information on…

Discusses the need to reform educational technology. Topics include an obsolete foundation for the field based on 1960s psychological theory; the need to incorporate cognitive science; reasons for integrating information technology; and ideological challenges, including critical theory. (LRW)

Discusses the need for and construction of a language of probability to complement the extant languages of critique and possibility in critical curriculum theory. Actions framed in the language, and the ensuing dialogue, could then be forces in radical reform through a process of infiltration, appropriation, and reconfiguration. (SM)

Focusing on curriculum revision as a process of transition rather than change may help alleviate faculty anxiety or resistance. Strategies for effective transition outcomes address the following aspects: planning, meaning, expectations, knowledge and skills, environmental factors, and well-being. (SK)

A nongovernmental organization involved in community development in Cambodia adapted De Bono's six thinking hat model to build staff capacity and develop a framework for open-ended conversations. It proved useful for comprehensive analysis of problems and preventing conflicts. (SK)

Proposes the application of an action-knowledge conceptual framework to explore why money and policy change are not enough to create campus environments where multiculturalism enhances student learning. Asserts that Argyris' (1985) notion of double-loop learning recognizes the necessity for "actionable" knowledge to be instilled in…

Discusses the tradition of argument about what forms of metalinguistic discourse are valid, useful, and significant in the era of modern Western linguistics, with particular reference to the argument between linguistic science and prescriptivism. The article emphasizes that linguistic norms are open to challenge and change about what their nature…

Encourages teachers to participate and take leadership roles on committees designed to improve the educational process. Notes that the process of change is slow in the present school structure. (RS)

Provides suggestions to ensure the success of electronic performance support systems (EPSS) and electronic learning, including creating hybrid solutions; aligning EPSS with business objectives and performance requirements; change management efforts; and rapid application development to lower costs, shrink schedules, and improve quality.…

Discussion of management of organizational change focuses on a study of managers that determined why organizational changes fail and why they succeed. Highlights include type of change; complexity of change efforts; success rates; sponsorship; motivation factors; measures of success; correlates of success and failures; and enablers and barriers to…

Extends a previous analysis of the debate between those advocating highly professionalized teacher preparation and those seeking deregulation, inquiring into the democratic and anti-democratic features of the debate. Discusses the importance of thoughtful opposition, how and where on the political landscape that opposition is resolved, and who is…